Tongue protector



g- 8, 1939- H. A. REECE 2,168,716

TONGUE PROTECTOR Filed April 2, 1937 INVENTOR A 7 r5 5 T ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 8, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TONGUE PROTECTOR Application April 2, 1937, Serial No. 134,599

4 Claims.

This invention relates to means for protecting the tongue of a carcass during processing.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide means for protecting a hog tongue from the 5 teeth and the dehairing beaters during dehairing of the carcass.

Other objects of the invention will be apparent from the description and claims which follow.

Figure l is a perspective view partly in section 10 of a preferred embodiment of the device of the present invention.

Figure 2 is an end view of the device shown in Figure 1.

The tongue protector of the present invention 15 may be prepared by forming a sheath or envelope of sheet metal which is slightly tapered and shaped to fit well between the jaws of a hog. Sheath I is provided at the closed end 2 with a pin 3. A spring wire 4 is loosely fastened 20 around pin 3 at 5 forming extensions 6 and 1 within the sheath l. The'free ends 8 and 9 of extensions 6 and l are resilient and are provided at the ends with points II] and H bent at right angles at l2 and I3. Resilient arms 8 and 9 are 25 preferably provided with notches I4 and i5 whereby the arms may be gripped by appropriate tools such as a pair of tongs, to compress the arms and facilitate insertion of the device within the mouth of a hog carcass. 30 The end of the tongue is held within sheath I,

entering at opening l6. Points l and II are urged against the inside of the cheeks of the hogs mouth by resilient arms 8 and 9, holding the guard l in fixed position in the hogs mouth against dislodgment by the action of dehairing beaters or gravity.

I claim:

1. A tongue protector comprising a sheath and resilient arms for holding the sheath in position in the mouth of a carcass. 10

2. A tongue protector comprising a sheath open at one 'end, a pin within the sheath at the other end, a spring wire fastened to said pin forming extensions within the sheath and extending beyond the open end to form external resilient means for holding the sheath in the mouth of a carcass.

3. A tongue protector comprising a sheath open at one end, a pin within the sheath at the other end, a spring wire fastened to said pin forming extensions within the sheath and extending beyond the open end to form external resilient arms provided with points for holding the sheath in the mouth of a carcass.

4. A tongue protector comprising a sheath and resilient arms for holding the sheath in position in the mouth of a carcass, each arm being provided with a pointed end.

HARRY ARTHUR REECE.

CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION.

Patent No. 2,168,716. August 8, 1959.

HARRY ARTHUR REECE.

It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: First column, line 5, before the article "the" insertfrom; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may Conform to the record of the Case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 19th day of September, Aa D. 1959.

Henry Van Arsdale, (Seal) Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

